Category: Service

  • Lisa Tan ’01 and Martin Rawls-Meehan ’01 donate 30,000 masks to Princeton

    August 26, 2020 Health Care, News, Service

    Lisa Tan ’01 and Martin Rawls-Meehan ’01 donate 30,000 masks to Princeton

    At the height of the spring COVID-19 outbreak in Michigan, Martin Rawls-Meehan ’01 and Lisa Tan ’01 realized they were in position to help. Their smart-tech sleep systems company, Reverie, had the production technology to mass produce cloth protective face masks. To date, Reverie is approaching 1 million donated masks to nonprofits, healthcare providers, the State of Michigan and other institutions — including 30,000 masks to Princeton.

  • Poll Hero Aims to Recruit Young Poll Workers Amid COVID-19 Shortage

    August 19, 2020 Community, Service

    Poll Hero Aims to Recruit Young Poll Workers Amid COVID-19 Shortage

    Poll Hero, a project founded by a group of Princeton University students, Denver East High School students, and a graduate of University of Chicago Booth School of Business, is an approximately 30-member team of almost exclusively Gen Z volunteers who are trying to recruit as many young poll workers — in some cases as young as 16 — as they can to work election sites in their communities this November amid a shortage of workers because of the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Forest Hills, NY organization helps local eateries

    June 26, 2020 Community, Service

    Forest Hills, NY organization helps local eateries

    Anu Pattabiraman ’10 credits volunteering at the Pace Center for Civic Engagement during her undergraduate years with instilling in her the importance of service and giving back. It’s the reason why Pattabiraman, who recently moved back to her Forest Hills neighborhood in Queens, couldn’t sit back and watch her favorite eateries begin to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

  • Stitching, Sewing, Sending Out Hope

    June 16, 2020 Community, Service

    Stitching, Sewing, Sending Out Hope

    Princeton junior Sally Ruybalid has sewn more than 300 masks for local hospitals, businesses and community members since March 30, when she emailed several undergraduate mailing lists offering free fabric masks.

  • Class of 1980 Reunions’ Community Service Project Benefits Trenton-Area School

    June 15, 2020 Education, Service

    Class of 1980 Reunions’ Community Service Project Benefits Trenton-Area School

    When the Class of 1980 learned that Reunions wasn’t continuing as originally planned due to the pandemic, the class quickly determined it wanted to keep one aspect of Reunions intact: its community service project. With its 40th reunion theme, “The Ties That Bind,” as a guidepost, the class sought to pursue a project that had real impact and was meaningful to its members.

  • Greig Metzger ’82 and Little Free Library Locations Answer a New Need

    June 4, 2020 Community, Service

    Greig Metzger ’82 and Little Free Library Locations Answer a New Need

    Since sheltering in place due to COVID-19 began in March, many people who share books through Little Free Library boxes recognized a new opportunity. Some have added canned goods, homemade masks, craft supplies for kids, even toilet paper to their book-sharing boxes. (PHOTO: Greig Metzger ’82 and Heather Butts ’94 at a Little Free Library event in September 2019.)

  • Driving Mantra for David Azen ’80: Everybody Goes to Bed Well Fed

    June 1, 2020 Community, Service

    Driving Mantra for David Azen ’80: Everybody Goes to Bed Well Fed

    Rabbi David Azen ’80 established Fresher Sacramento in 2006 on the simple idea that everybody should be able to go to bed well fed. The nonprofit has expanded its activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing healthy food to people who need it most — seniors, the homeless, and folks in neighborhoods called “food deserts” because fresh food is difficult to find.